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Hard Mode Rust (2022)
This post is a case study of writing a Rust application using only minimal, artificially constrained API (eg, no dynamic memory allocation). It assumes a fair bit of familiarity with the language.
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Decompiling 2024: A Year of Resurgance in Decompilation Research
The year 2024 was a resurgent year for decompilation. Academic publications from that year made up nearly 30% of all top publications ever made in decompilation. In this post, I do a summarization and retrospective of both the academic and ideological progress of decompilation in 2024. Hint: decompilation research is…
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Some flag emojis aren’t working on Chrome on Windows
A blog post by Ryan Geyer
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Parsing PDFs (and more) in Elixir using Rust
A Love Story Between Two Amazing Languages 🦀💜
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Enhancing your MIDI devices with Perl
This post also appeared on perl.com.
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Discovery Coding
Discovery coding is a practice of understanding a problem by writing code first, rather than attempting to do some design process or thinking beforehand.
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Using uv as your shebang line
An article by Rob Allen
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Promising results from DeepSeek R1 for code
PR by Xuan-Son Nguyen for llama.cpp: This PR provides a big jump in speed for WASM by leveraging SIMD instructions for qX_K_q8_K and qX_0_q8_0 dot product functions. Surprisingly, 99% of …
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In Zig, what's a writer?
Karl Seguin's Blog - A mix of coding and creative writing
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I trusted an LLM, now I'm on day 4 of an afternoon project
A quick project spiraled into a marathon of AI missteps, hardware headaches, and hard-earned lessons. Welcome to the story of Deskthang.
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Go 1.24's go tool is one of the best additions to the ecosystem in years
Why I'm very excited about `go tool` landing in Go 1.24.
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Better Know a Ruby Thing: Singleton Classes
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Bilinear down/upsampling, aligning pixel grids, and that infamous GPU half pixel (2021)
See this ugly pixel shift when upsampling a downsampled image? My post describes where it can come from and how to avoid those! It’s been more than two decades of me using bilinear texture filterin…
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My failed attempt to shrink all NPM packages by 5%
It seemed like a great idea at first.
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Rust’s worst feature
There are several aspects of Rust that I’m not particularly fond of but the one that takes the cake is core::io::BorrowedBuf which I despise with passion. It’s a nightly feature which puts in question my extreme emotions about it. On the other hand it means there’s time to stop it from getting stabilised and figure…
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When AI promises speed but delivers debugging hell
Lessons learned from building Codescribble with a little help (and a lot of frustration) from an AI
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Using AI for Coding: My Journey with Cline and LLMs
How I leveraged AI tools like Cline to enhance the UI/UX of a website and streamline backend tasks. From redesigning pages and translating content to navigating the benefits and challenges of AI-assisted development, this blog post highlights the potential of using large language models to boost productivity while…
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Composable SQL
Better SQL through typed, composable query fragments.
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The Simplicity of Prolog
Nowadays the most popular programming languages are Python, Javascript, Java, C++, C#, Kotlin and Ruby, and the average programmer is probably familiar with one or more of these languages. It's relatively easy to switch from one to another (barring any framework specific knowledge that may be needed), since they are…
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Searching for DeepSeek's glitch tokens
A first attempt at identifying and cataloging DeepSeek's glitched tokens
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Every HTML Element
An interactive page demonstrating every HTML element.
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The Mythical IO-Bound Rails App
When the topic of Rails performance comes up, it is commonplace to hear that the database is the bottleneck, so Rails applications are IO-bound anyway, hence Ruby performance doesn’t matter that much, and all you need is a healthy dose of concurrency to make your service scale. But how true is this in general?
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Trying out Zed after more than a decade of Vim/Neovim
After 15 years with Neovim, I'm trying out Zed as my daily driver text editor. In this post, I share why I'm switching and what my initial impressions are.
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Supercharge SQLite with Ruby Functions
An interesting twist in my recent usage of SQLite was the fact that I noticed my research scripts and the database intertwine more. SQLite is unique in that it really lives in-process, unlike standalone database servers. There is a feature to that which does not get used very frequently, but can be indispensable in…
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Using the most unhinged AVX-512 instruction to make fastest phrase search algo
Disclaimers before we start For those who don’t want to read/don’t care that much, here are the results. I hope after seeing them you are compelled to read. TL;DR: I wrote a super fast phrase search algorithm using AVX-512 and achieved wins up to 1600x the performance of Meilisearch. The source code can be found here…
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You should write "without bugs"
Why and how you should write "without bugs"
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Most Influential Papers in Computer Science History
This post celebrates influential papers that shaped technology and communication. Their foundational concepts inspire continued innovation, highlighting the importance of understanding our roots fo…
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So you wanna write Kubernetes controllers?
Any company using Kubernetes eventually starts looking into developing their custom controllers. After all, what’s not to like about being able to provision resources with declarative configuration: Control loops are fun, and Kubebuilder makes...
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I made a multiplayer shooter game in Lisp, here is my journey
Developing a multiplayer third-person shooter game as a solo developer is a journey filled with challenges and rewards. I embarked on this adventure to create Wizard Masters, a web-based multiplayer game where players battle as mages wielding elemental spells. Built using Clojure, a Lisp dialect, this project pushed…